ANGLO AMERICAN SA FINANCE LTD - Ratings announcement

Ratings announcement

Anglo American SA Finance Limited – Announcement on S&P mapping
guidance

Dated: 18 October 2012
CHANGE IN S & P MAPPING GUIDANCE FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL
CREDIT RATING SCALE

Noteholders are referred to the announcement issued by Standard
and Poor’s Rating Services (“S&P”) on 18 October 2012 in which
the agency announced that it has revised various South African
national scale ratings following the publication of a revised
mapping guidance for South African national scale ratings.

The rating agency announced that the South African national
scale rating of Anglo American plc has changed from zaAA/zaA-1
to zaAA+/zaA-1.

Anglo American plc is the Guarantor of Anglo American SA Finance
Limited’s R20bn domestic medium term note programme.


For further information contact:

Debt Sponsor – The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
Andrew Costa
Tel (011) 378 7008        Email: andrew.costa@standardbank.co.za

Anglo American SA Finance Limited
Pranill Ramchander
Tel (011) 638 2592 Email: pranill.ramchander@angloamerican.com

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